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Originally Posted by luqmaninbmore
Evidence? And are they astronomical in spite of patent law or _because_ of patent law? And are those astronomical costs distributed evenly across the industry or concentrated in certain areas, some of which may not be of any major consequence to the majority of people?
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The reason for the high costs is that 9 out of 10 new drugs don't work. The 1 in 10 that does has to fund all the research costs for the ones that fail.